A hydrogen-rich compound discovered by Stanford researchers is packed
with promise of helping overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using
hydrogen for fuel—namely, how do you stuff enough hydrogen into a volume
that is small enough to be portable and practical for powering a car? The newly discovered material is a high-pressure form of ammonia
borane, a solid material which itself is already imbued with ample
hydrogen.

The United States is the world's largest consumer of energy, though China will soon overtake us...."The Saudis are working a lot harder to get the oil out than they used to," Roland Horne, the Thomas Davies Barrow Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, told the Woods Institute's Energy Seminar last fall.

Rex Tillerson, the president and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., spoke on
campus Tuesday night, praising the work of Stanford researchers and—in a
recent switch of company policy—urging Congress to pass a carbon tax to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford has broadened
and accelerated access to its technology-patent rights and added more
research activities to its portfolio under a revised agreement with its
sponsors—ExxonMobil, GE, Schlumberger and Toyota.

Recognizing that energy is at the heart of many of the world's
tribulations—economic, environmental and political—Stanford is
establishing a $100 million research institute to focus intently on
energy issues, President John Hennessy told a capacity crowd Monday
afternoon in Memorial Auditorium.

ORMOC, Philippines -- Ferdinand Marcos, the despot who ruled here for 21
years, is remembered mainly for the staggering quantity of his wife's
shoes. But there is another Marcos legacy, and it is drawing new
attention at a time of high oil prices, global warming and urgent
questions about the role of government in alternative energy
development.